Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference is currently under way, and as usual, the technical fellows at Microsoft gave speeches about the deep architecture of Windows - in this case, Windows 7 of course. As it turns out, quite some seriously impressive changes have been made to the very core of Windows - all without breaking a single application. Thanks to BetaNews for summarising this technical talk so well.

The pagefile size has no effect unless it is set to be too small. The OS will not use the pagefile to store information that could just as well be stored in memory (old modified pages do eventually get written out, but they won't be discarded and read back in unless there's other demand for memory).